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BARCELONA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The COVID-19 pandemic has shown the world what it is like to go through a dangerous emergency of the kind that could occur if climate change accelerates - and offers lessons on how to respond, the head of the U.N. climate science panel said Friday.
Hoesung Lee, chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), said the health crisis was “a foretaste of what climate change could do to our society, to nature and to our lives”.
“Both climate change and COVID-19 have shown us the risks of an unthinking and rapacious approach to nature and its resources,” he told an event at which scientists stressed the importance of adapting to a warming planet.
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Building Resilience in a Warming World – Global Adaptation Summit 25
UN Climate Change News, 22 January 2021 – Leaders are set to galvanize action to build resilience to the inevitable impacts of climate change at an online global conference 25 and 26 January. Such impacts included extreme weather, wildfires and floods that have become more frequent with rising temperatures worldwide.
The Climate Adaptation Summit (CAS) 2021, hosted by the Netherlands and led by former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, will see the launch of a comprehensive Adaptation Action Agenda setting out practical climate solutions and plans up to 2030 to adapt to a warming world and achieve a climate-resilient future. The Summit will be attended by UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Patricia Espinosa, the UN’s top climate change official.